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Starting the 3rd series about my boys.

1:04 PM 3/10/2025 TOUKEN RANBU KAI KYODEN E3 - A Worthy Man . I had a bad feeling as soon as Tsurumaru opened his mouth. LOL I'm glad that Mitsutada expressed the same apprehension. LOL But well, good things aren't always fun and bad things sometimes are. lol . I really don't know what to do to help the Oda swords. It's like when they're not actively having an argument, I can think of all sorts of things. But then when they're actually having an argument scene, my mind goes blank. Stupid emotional overwhelm. . At least Yamanbagiri seems to have resolved his insecurity. I'm glad his brother thought of just the thing to say. I really like when the sibling swords get to interact, and I wanted more than what I saw from Hanamaru.

1:31 PM 3/10/2025 Just finished op on ep4. . I LOVE that it was Tsurumaru's idea to have this crazy teams vs teams training session. ^u^ It was so surprising, I laughed out loud. But since laughter is the natural reaction to surprise, I guess it can't be helped. This series, more than Katsugeki or Hanamaru is really making me understand why Tsurumaru loves surprises so much. ^o^ . Also got confirmation that there are other Citadels. And they can have sparring sessions against each other. Interesting. . I loved seeing Tsurumaru's fighting style. His footwork was so unconventional, jumping around. I love it!

5:24 PM 3/10/2025 TOUKEN RANBU KAI KYODEN E5 - Reunions and Conflicts . 3:19 PM 3/11/2025 TOUKEN RANBU KAI KYODEN E5 - Reunions and Conflicts . I liked that Yamanbagiri realized is "fake" label made him similar to Fudou Yukimitsu's "useless" label. Even though I've been annoyed with Yukimitsu all this time, it was nice to see Yamanbagiri sympathize with him. . The Time Retrograde Army can possess people? I guess it got introduced with Yasuke in Yamanbagiri's flashback. . But why possess Ranmaru instead of just defeating Akechi's army? Is it so important that Ranmaru appear to be doing it?

3:41 PM 3/11/2025 ep6 . 4:09 PM 3/11/2025 Maybe I should save ep7 for after my daily walk.

9:03 PM 3/11/2025 TOUKEN RANBU KAI KYODEN E8 - Honnoji In Flames . It's so weird. I just couldn't feel sympathy for Fudou. I could consciously tell myself "This is important to him" and "Oda is important to him", but I guess my mind was still on "but he's endangering the mission". Maybe practical matters supersede in my mind? I mean, in Hanamaru, they also had story arcs where the Oda swords had to oversee Honouji Temple had its incident undisturbed. And in Katsugeki, they also had swords who desperately wanted to see their masters again, even if it would change history and go against their mission and saniwa. But it wasn't annoying or unsympathizable in either of those series for me. I wonder why I couldn't feel more bad for Fudou…????? . As soon as I heard that head in the box was "Kojuro" and a woman was crying over it…I was like, "Oh. I KNOW what THIS is!" DATE MASAMUNE STORY!!! Does Kai Kyouden have enough episodes for that? Or is this a short series and that was a teaser? . 10:13 PM 3/11/2025 . Midway thru---WAIT A SECOND. IS THIS A MOVIE? AN OAV??????????? I thought this was just ep9! . Is that why they reset Yamanbagiri to his former insecurities from the first part of this series???? After he resolved it in the previous episode or 2??? . But also…. . Why did this episode start with some Date clan stuff? It's about Hasebe and his former master. Why bother giving the Date clan a scene? (Later me edit: I mixed up Kai Douden with the end of episode 8.) . I really like that Ookurikara and Yamanbagiri are interacting a lot in this OAV. In Hanamaru, they were very similar in demeanor. And Katsugeki portrayed Yamanbagiri very much like Ookurikara. So I like seeing their contrasts in this series, along with them working together, complimenting each other's similarities. . Hang on. Is this OAV or whatever, a prequel to the rest of the series? At the beginning of this series/season, Mikazuki was Attendant and said that Yamanbagiri was originally Attendant but resigned. And then they spent the first portion of this series with Yamanbagiri taking over, reinstated from Mikazuki. Is this a prequel??? But wasn't Yasuke escaping at the end of the previous episode? I'm so confused. . And now Fudou is appearing. So this was definitely a prequel to this season. But why was it positioned like episode 9? . 10:44 PM 3/11/2025 . I guess this prequel, extended episode was an end cap for the series/season. . I think there's another season of Hanamaru that I didn't finish yet. . 11:12 PM 3/11/2025 . Since that's it for Kai Kyouden and this Kai Douden special, I want to re-watch those Dategumi episodes from Hanamaru.